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Longitudinal Superconductivity in Vortex-Line Phases: A Monte Carlo Study

Gilson Carneiro

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.521 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

The translational symmetry and the superconducting properties of the vortex-line phases of clean, isotropic, type-II superconductors placed in an external magnetic field H are investigated by Monte Carlo simulations of a lattice London model. These simulations are carried out at constant H and allow for finite penetration length λ. Evidence is found that, in the region λ> intervortex spacing, the translational order and the longitudinal superconductivity that exist in the vortex-lattice phase are destroyed simultaneously at the melting transition into an entangled vortex liquid.

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